Hey,
I printed out our conversations and your recommendations and brought them into a computer store (PC's for everyone,
www.pcsforeveryone.com) and told him to give me a quote and any other suggestions. He printed me a quote with some different stuff on it. He said some of the stuff on the itemized list were old. I was hoping to get some other opinions on his suggestions. Keep in mind I have no idea what I'm talking about so I'm going to put down everything he did. Thanks so much. Here goes:
ATHLON XP 1800+ (1.53G) SYSTEM - 569.00
UPG TO MSI KT3-ULTRA MB - 28.00
UPG TO 512MB CL2 DDR / USE 1 - 132.00
UPG TO ENERMAX A106 / 300W - (-10.00)
UPG TO IBM 41.GB 07N9208 - 11.00
3.5" 1.44MB FLOPPY DRIVE - 0.00
UPG TO AOC 7F 17" .25 FLAT - 52.00
UPG TO MSI GF2-MX400 64 MB - 81.00
UPG TO MITSUMI PS2 KBD - 0.00
WINDOWS XP HOME NTFS - 99.00
COREL WORDPERFECT OFFICE 2002 - 0.00
UPG TO MS INTELLIMOUSE - 10.00
LITE-ON IDE 40X12X48 CDRW - 75.00
DLINK 10/100 RJ45 32BIT NIC - 19.00
Also, someone mentioned dual monitors. Why? This configuration with tax and a lifetime labor warranty comes to $1119.30 which is fine for me as long as I'm not getting ripped of and the computer will work well. Thanks again!
-Tim